I rely on a 560MHz, PIII with about 768 MB of RAM, and I have been using this Exprimo series for the last 8 or so months. It is fantastic.

98% of my net use revolves about Firefox, and it hasn't once frozen, spat the dummy, or kicked over the traces. I regularly surf with up 60 browser tabs (crazy, I know) yet Firefox hasn't faltered. (To maximize the ram available for apps, I always boot with puppy pfix=nocopy.)

It is sheer joy to surf with this combo of Dpup Exprimo and Firefox. (We're now up to Firefox 15.0.1, it's a dizzying ride just keeping abreast of browser updates. )

I look forward to the next gem from pemasu. Mind you, expectations are now so high ....

Hi edoc. I boot from the CD every time, and "pfix=nocopy" tells puppy not to load the .sfs file (containing most of the puppy software) into ram, instead that data must read from the HD as needed. This means that RAM that would otherwise be occupied by the .sfs file (~150MB) is free for applications to use. (It also means that some apps might be a tiny bit slower to start up on first use because they are coming off the HD rather than from ram.)

If you have installed puppy on your HD as a full install, then I think "pfix=nocopy" would have no effect, as it is already the economical way puppy works.

nice to see dpup still going on...
gonna be testing it later on today...
hope pemasu gets to intergreat memtest86+ on the iso.
and i will see if it runs on my atom n2600/gma3600 netbook
which is a pain as only fedora17 lxde spin gives me 1024x600,
also for shep/edocs if you want to go the other way and run apps only in ram have a look at "ramdisk gui" this is great for running/testing opera as a example
just unpack the opera .tar.xz into it-100mb is big enough..
ramdisk gui link:-
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=74663&sid=429601f9dcd5b1aa19196fe6eb986483
have fun.

I have Exprimo running on a Samsung NB30 and a MSI Netbook, so it does handle them fine.

I did have some minor problems on the Samsung with display overlap on sub-windows in Seamonkey E-mail setup (I have a workaround) and the display is dimmed if I boot without AC power (haven't found a way around that as F-key display controls are non-respomnsive).

I could search through this 144 page thread to see whether it has previously been mentioned, or I could just post away .....

Pburn 3.7.4 in Exprimo 5.X.15 does not generate the correct md5sum. After burning the .iso it offers to check the md5sum, but even after ejecting and reinserting the CD, the correct md5sum is not generated.

Only by leaving Pburn and using the commandline (md5sum /dev/sr0) can I get confirmation of an error-free burn.

I thought you might be interested in my modification of Iguleder's buildpkg.
Same ..concept ... you just run buildpet [script-name] from the terminal.
Some sample scripts are in /usr/share/buildpet. I've attached a tarball of the rest of the scripts that I have. A few are new, most are from Iguleders builder tarball.

I hope to be able to make a frontend for this soon, so that there will be a menu entry for it like Puppizard, and also, so you can just click on the script and it should ask you if you want to build the pet.